Showing posts with label Kings of Leon. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Glee Guru Ryan Murphy Apologizes for Kings of Leon Tirade


It looks like Ryan Murphy is altering his tune.

In the wake up of all the harmful mind the show's maker got after he lashed out at Kings of Leon for the band's decision not to have their song "Use Somebody" performed on his hit series Glee, Murphy is now apologized for the comments he made.

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"I didn't speak with as much clarity as I would have liked. Who am I to say 'F--k you?' That's not what I meant." he tells the Hollywood Reporter. "I completely understand when artists don't want a show or another artist to interpret their songs. In fact, I respect it. It's their personal work and I'd feel the same way. We get turned down all the time and I don't fight it or even go back after a rejection."

In fact, Murphy recalls how Björk recently rejected him, but insists he holds no ill feelings towards her.

"She read the scene and didn't think it was the right fit for her song," he says. "I told her, 'That's completely cool,' and she said to come back to her down the road. We deal with that every day."

And it seems he's still dealing with the fallout from his KOL tirade. At the recent SXSW Festival, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters took a moment to label Murphy "a f--king jerk" for "thinking anybody and everybody should want to do Glee."

"I've never felt that if you don't give Glee your music, there's rather diabolical about you," says Murphy when the subject of Grohl's comments came up. "To the contrary: I support artists and what they choose to do...I think Kings of Leon are cool as s--t. The Foo Fighters are brilliant. We'd love to do one their songs, if they were yet involved."

Yeah, good luck with that.


Saturday, August 1, 2009

Kings of Leon's flourishing US come again

Rockers Kings Of Leon blackout New York City's Rockefeller Center on Friday after thousands of fans turned out to welcome the band back to America.

The Sex on Fire hit makers, from Nashville, Tennessee, took more time to build a fanbase in their native US after enjoying massive success abroad.

On their return from Europe, organisers of breakfast programme the Today Show informed the musicians more than 20,000 fan pass requests had been made for the free performance - a new record for the ongoing summer concert series.

And frontman Caleb Followill admits the rockers are happy to return stateside: "We've been touring for well over a year now. It feels like we never get off tour. We're coming to the point where we finally can get to play and spend more time in America. It's a little easier to travel around home."